Are houses being dressed professionally?

SuperMoose

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

£982,050 happened: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20617/lot/43/


SP

You mean the one I've got on my living room wall isn't real? :eek: That was a waste of 99p in the charity shop then :rotfl:

Enterprise_1701C

Smodlet wrote: »

I confess I have only ever read one TP book, "Wyrd Sisters" but it almost made me incontinent with laughter. I had to keep stopping to mop my eyes so I could read further. I do have just about everything !!!! Francis has ever written, though and what is life without the Lord of the Rings? I am sorry, the films are a travesty, imho.

Sorry for the completely off-topic post; I do have an addition, though: "Feature walls" which look as if they have been papered with shiny, metallic gift-wrap, often deep purple with silver, gold or red motifs... In the absence of a vomit icon, this will have to do - :eek::p

Lord of the Rings is what introduced me to Fantasy, I read it when I was 11, I remember getting into serious trouble because I was so far into it I didn't hear my parents calling me for dinner :rotfl::rotfl: I went from that to 1984, then read my way through the sci-fi/fantasy section of the school library in less than a year.

I have an e-reader, but there is nothing quite like the smell and feel of a real book , and we have several signed first editions of various books, the pride of my collection is a signed first edition of Stephen King's Lisey's Story, I was in Oxford Street for about 7 in the morning for that one

TamsinC

I am that weird person that has an almost full set of TP first edition hardbacks {some signed) and normal softbacks.

CarrieVS

TamsinC wrote: »

I am that weird person that has an almost full set of TP first edition hardbacks {some signed) and normal softbacks.

I don't think I'd dare read signed first edition TPs. And I've never been one for getting books purely to have them (I will admit I love to look at and touch my leatherbound gilt-edged hardback Lovecraft collection, but while it's nice it's not too valuable to read.)

I'm not dissing your book collection - whether they're an investment or just make you happy, that's cool. Just not my thing. On the other hand, I'm genuinely sorry to say that I have to inhume you for mixing round and curly brackets.

Enterprise_1701C

TamsinC wrote: »

I am that weird person that has an almost full set of TP first edition hardbacks {some signed) and normal softbacks.

When I got my signed Stephen King I then went and bought another of the same book (in a cheaper shop) to actually read.

calleyw

Estheroid wrote: »

My mum and I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition last year and apart from the odd decent exhibit there were a few of stalls selling this tat. I wandered around in awe, looking at the terrible pictures of champagne bottles spewing glitter and wondering why anyone would buy this stuff. Tomorrow's landfill!

Can you imagine what archeologists will think we all had in our houses in hundreds of years time.



God awful tat


Yours


Calley x

PasturesNew

I've spent the day looking through houses for sale as I'm selling, so have to find one to buy too .... and I finally closed my browser, tired of it all, when I spotted that one house had a neat basket on the floor of the bathroom that contained identically sized, neatly rolled, handtowels - all in different/coordinating modern colours.

I wonder how long she spent looking at towel colours, putting together a little collection ... then finding the perfect basket where they'd fit ... then rolling them all and putting them in the basket, mulling over the order of the colours and which to put where.... not to mention the cost! And that was just one item, on one little floor.

It's got beyond a joke in some of the houses you see....

-taff

CarrieVS wrote: »

On the other hand, I'm genuinely sorry to say that I have to inhume you for mixing round and curly brackets.

Gold star quote of yesterday

PersianCatLady

Bengal wrote: »

I've been viewing lots of houses on rightmove lately - at the lower end of the market - and so many seem to have been dressed in a certain way. Not so much the strategically-placed colour-coordinated bed covering or vase that balances the curtains (though there is that), but I'm constantly seeing signs and stencils on walls - L-O-V-E - and short pithy platitudes about home and heart and so on. Is this a design trend that I've missed, or are estate agents/specialists putting these up in sellers' houses to make them more attractive?

I don't think that houses are being dressed in the style that you describe.

I have noticed that the sort of people who live in homes at the lower end of the market seem to have a real passion for cheesy signs about "a house isn't a home without love" and the like.

tori.k

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've spent the day looking through houses for sale as I'm selling, so have to find one to buy too .... and I finally closed my browser, tired of it all, when I spotted that one house had a neat basket on the floor of the bathroom that contained identically sized, neatly rolled, handtowels - all in different/coordinating modern colours.

I wonder how long she spent looking at towel colours, putting together a little collection ... then finding the perfect basket where they'd fit ... then rolling them all and putting them in the basket, mulling over the order of the colours and which to put where.... not to mention the cost! And that was just one item, on one little floor.

It's got beyond a joke in some of the houses you see....

Im guilty of that one I roll the facecloths that sits on a small drawer unit, that and the handwash and hand towel is the only thing I allow on display in the bathroom. We each have our own coloured towels and they end up scattered on the floor if certain people have to root in a folded pile so rolling stop this, Im even sad enough to stack them in the usual order that people do there ablutions. beats the ell out of scrubbing the bathroom everyday due to clutter when a quick wipe over will do. Its working smarter not harder....maybe I should make that into a wooden sign